NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony hung from the rim, the helpless defender who tried to stop his dunk lying on the court below after falling down.

Pretty soon, Anthony’s jumper was falling, too.

Once that happened, the Knicks blew away the Pacers with a performance that resembled something from earlier this season, not this series.

Anthony scored 32 points, 16 during a 30-2 New York onslaught in the second half, and the Knicks beat the Pacers 105-79 on Tuesday night to even the Eastern Conference semifinals at one game.

“I think for the most part from the start of the game and throughout the whole game, I think we played with a sense of urgency,” Anthony said. “We played the way we’ve been playing as far as competing at the highest level.”

Paul George scored 20 points for the Pacers, who had a two-point lead and momentum when coach Frank Vogel called timeout with a little more than three minutes left in the third quarter.

By the time the Pacers got on the board in the fourth quarter, the Knicks had opened a 26-point advantage.

“The fourth quarter we just defensively, we picked up,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. “We kept getting stop after stop and then we would rebound the ball and get it up and our offense began to flow like old times.”

Indiana had trailed most of the night before taking a 64-62 lead on George Hill’s 3-pointer with 3:28 left in the third quarter that capped a 10-4 run, the Pacers seeming to have all the momentum.

Vogel then called timeout and subbed out center Roy Hibbert.

Seeing the middle open, Anthony came back attacking, first with a drive and then a dunk while drawing a foul that knocked over Hibbert’s replacement, Jeff Pendergraph, and the game was never the same.

“It was our timeout,” Vogel said. “I usually use that situation to put something in while we have the ball.”

New York closed the period on a 10-2 run, Pablo Prigioni opened the fourth with a 3-pointer and a jumper in the lane, drawing chants of “Pablo! Pablo!” and then Anthony put it away.

He hit a jumper and a 3-pointer, and after Tyson Chandler’s follow dunk, the NBA’s scoring leader converted a three-point play and drilled another 3-pointer before another basket by Chandler made it 92-66, extending the run to 30-2.

Grizzlies 99, Thunder 93•OKLAHOMA CITY — Mike Conley scored 26 points, Marc Gasol added 24 points and Memphis used a late run to beat Oklahoma City and even the Western Conference semifinals at one game.

Conley hit a 3-pointer from the left wing with 1:58 left to put the Grizzlies ahead to stay, then added an 18-foot jumper to stretch the lead to 94-90.

Kevin Durant couldn’t provide an answer for the Thunder. He missed his last three shots, including two 3-point attempts, and finished with 36 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists. The Associated Press

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